Items


Cannon

Basic weapon to use against your opponents and for them to use against you. Watch out, tho, in addition to flying straight ahead, these will bounce off the walls! Use this to your advantage when aiming at opponents.

Nuke

Get all your opponents into the same square and then fire the nuke to destroy all of them together! Nuke has a giant killing radius enabling you to destroy more of your opponents with one shot and increasing your chances of killing opponents.

Triple Cannon

Three times the projectiles providing three times as much damage area and thus triple the chance of hitting your opponents.

Health

Gain additional health unit to keep you alive for longer.

Random Rotation

Want to mix up and confuse everyone? Random rotation will randomly rotate the cube, so who knows what the end configuration will be.


Game Controls:

  • Left Joystick

    Controls tank: Forward and back accelerates and brakes/reverses, while left and right steers

  • Right Joystick

    Controls minimap: Point the joystick in the direction you want to look

  • Y/A

    Rotate forward/backward (pitches tank forward/back)

  • X/B

    Rotate left/right (rolls tank to left/right)

  • Left/Right Bumper

    Rotate tank clockwise/counterclockwise (yaw left/right)

  • Left Trigger

    Switches items

  • Right Trigger

    Fires/use current item

Play Rubik's Tanks!


Download here (Windows only).


Installation Instructions


  • You will need 1-4 wireless XBox wireless controllers and a USB wireless receiver to connect the controllers to your PC.
  • Download the zip file and unzip it with a program such as 7zip.
  • Run CS248VideoGame.exe

About Us


My friend and I made this game for an introductory graphics course at Stanford University during the Autumn quarter of 2008-2009. We had four and a half weeks to implement a game that included some graphics features we learned in class. This was our first project that uses OpenGL extensively.


We look forward to future graphics projects and perhaps also to making a better version of this game. If you have any thoughts, comments, or suggestions, feel free to e-mail us at lorenyu.at.stanford.edu and jbhernan.at.stanford.edu.